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ADMINISTRATOR
ASTM
BOD (BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND)
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BUILDING DRAIN
BUILDING SEWER
COOLING WATER
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
DISPOSAL SYSTEM
DRAINAGE DISCHARGES
GARBAGE
INDUSTRIAL PROCESS WATERS or PROCESS WATERS
INDUSTRIAL WASTES
INTERCEPTOR
NYSDEC
OTHER WASTES
PERSON
pH
POLLUTED
PRIVATE
PROPERLY SHREDDED GARBAGE
PUBLIC
RECEIVING WATERS
SANITARY SEWER
SCAVENGER WASTES
SEWAGE
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM
SEWER
SEWER SYSTEM
SIGNIFICANT INDUSTRIAL USER
SLOPE
SLUG
SPDES (State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System)
STORM SEWER or STORM DRAIN
SUSPENDED SOLIDS
TOXIC SUBSTANCE
TREATMENT PLANT or SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
UNREASONABLE ADVERSE EFFECTS
US EPA
VILLAGE
VILLAGE MANAGER
WASTE
WPCF
Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meaning
of the terms used in this chapter shall be as follows:
The treatment plant operator for the Village of Walden or
his duly authorized representative.
The American Society for Testing and Materials.
The quantity of oxygen utilized in the biochemical oxidation
of organic matter under standard laboratory procedure in five days
at 20° C. (68° F.) expressed in parts per million (ppm) or
milligrams per liter (mg/1).
The Board of Trustees of the Village of Walden.
That part of the lowest horizontal piping of a building drainage
system which receives the discharge from soil, waste and other drainage
pipes inside the walls of any building and conveys such discharge
to the building sewers beginning three feet outside of the outer face
of the building wall.
That part of the horizontal piping of a drainage system which
extends from the end of the building drain and which receives the
discharge of the building drain and conveys it to a Village sewer.
The materials used to connect the building sewer to the Village sewer
shall be deemed part of the building sewer.
The water discharge from any system of condensation, air
conditioning, cooling or refrigeration, and carrying no contamination
other than abnormal heat.
The Orange County Department of Health.
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage, industrial waste
and other wastes.
Stormwater surface runoff, groundwater, roof runoff and the
like.
Solid wastes from the domestic or commercial preparation,
cooking and dispensing of food or from handling, storage and sale
of produce.
The waters which are ordinarily a constituent part of and
are polluted by industrial wastes.
Any liquid, gaseous, solid or other waste substance or a
combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing,
trade or business or from the development or recovery of any natural
resources.
A device designated and installed so as to separate and retain
deleterious, hazardous or otherwise undesirable matter, such as grease,
oil or sand from wastes.
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
Garbage, refuse, decayed wood, sawdust, shavings, bark, sand,
lime, cinders, ashes, offal, oil, tar, dye stuffs, acids, chemicals
and all other discarded matter not sewage or industrial waste.
Any individual, partnership, firm, company, association,
society, corporation or group.
The logarithm of the reciprocal of the weight of hydrogen
ions in grams per liter of solution.
The alteration of the biological, chemical, radiological
or aesthetic integrity of water from the presence of sewage, industrial
waste or other waste.
When used as a modifier, those facilities not owned by the
Village or a public entity.
Garbage that has been shredded to such degree that all particles
will be carried freely under the flow conditions normally prevailing
in Village sewers, with no particle greater than 1/2 inch in any dimension.
Those facilities owned or operated by a sewage works corporation
under the Transportation Corporation Law or by a governmental entity
other than the Village.
A natural watercourse or any other body of surface water
or groundwater into which treated or untreated sewage is discharged.
A sewer which is intended to carry only sewage.
The human fecal matter collected from privies, septic tanks,
cesspools, recreational vehicles and chemical toilets.
The water-carried human or animal wastes from residences,
buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with
such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be inadvertently
present.
The entire system of sewers, treatment facilities and their
appurtenances for collecting and treating sewage.
A pipe or conduit for carrying water-carried wastes.
The entire system of sewers and their appurtenances for collecting
sewage, industrial waste and other wastes.
Any industrial user who has a flow of 25,000 gallons (or 3,342 cubic feet) or more per day, has a flow greater than 5% of the flow in the Village sewer system, or has in his wastes toxic pollutant(s) as defined pursuant to Article VI, or has been identified as one of the 21 industrial categories pursuant to 33 U.S.C. § 1317, or is found by the Village to have significant impact, either singly or in combination with other contributing industries, on the Village disposal system.
The grade or pitch of a line of pipe in reference to a horizontal
plane. In a drainage context, it is usually expressed as the fall
on a fraction of an inch per foot length of pipe.
Any discharge of water, sewage or industrial waste which
in concentration of any given constituent or in quantity of flow exceeds,
for any period of duration longer than 15 minutes, more than five
times the average twenty-four-hour concentration or flow during normal
operation.
The system established pursuant to Article 17 of the Environmental
Conservation Law for the issuance of permits authorizing discharges
to the waters of the state.
A sewer which is intended to carry only drainage discharges,
not sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes.
Solids that either float on the surface of or are in suspension
in water, sewage or other liquids and which are removable by laboratory
filtering.
Any substance or combination of substances, including disease-causing
agents, which when discharged and exposed, ingested, inhaled or assimilated
into any organism, either directly from the environment or indirectly
through food chains, will, on the basis of information available to
the NYSDEC, cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer,
genetic mutations, physiological malfunctions, including malfunctions
in reproduction, or physical deformations in such organisms or their
offspring.
Any arrangement of devices, structures and facilities used
to treat sewage, industrial wastes and/or other wastes.
Any unreasonable risk of harm.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency.
The Village of Walden. When used as a modifier, "Village"
shall mean those facilities and their appurtenances which are owned
and/or operated by the Village.
The Village Manager of the Village of Walden.
Any discarded substance.
The Water Pollution Control Federation.
